Comments on: Lovin’ loggin’ in http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2007/01/04/lovin-loggin-in/ Tangled musings on identity, privacy, trust, and suchlike Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:31:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robin Wilton http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2007/01/04/lovin-loggin-in/comment-page-1/#comment-28631 Robin Wilton Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:56:35 +0000 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2007/01/04/lovin-loggin-in/#comment-28631 Hmmm. Know anyone called Trent or Mallet? Hmmm. Know anyone called Trent or Mallet?

]]> By: Eve http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2007/01/04/lovin-loggin-in/comment-page-1/#comment-25098 Eve Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:17:42 +0000 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2007/01/04/lovin-loggin-in/#comment-25098 Hi Bob! Interesting... This practice makes sense as a first-line defense against various kinds of malice. Social engineering can probably easily overcome it, though, I would think -- the point of an IM handle being to give it to people. If blacklisting doesn't work, abandoning an identity is what you'd have to do to cut an unwanted relationship. Hopefully we can do better than that eventually. If you're bringing Alice to the XML Summer School this year, perhaps we three should arrange for a live demonstration of intercepted communication and take pictures. :-) Hi Bob! Interesting… This practice makes sense as a first-line defense against various kinds of malice. Social engineering can probably easily overcome it, though, I would think — the point of an IM handle being to give it to people. If blacklisting doesn’t work, abandoning an identity is what you’d have to do to cut an unwanted relationship. Hopefully we can do better than that eventually.

If you’re bringing Alice to the XML Summer School this year, perhaps we three should arrange for a live demonstration of intercepted communication and take pictures. :-)

]]> By: Bob DuCharme http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/2007/01/04/lovin-loggin-in/comment-page-1/#comment-25093 Bob DuCharme Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:58:07 +0000 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2007/01/04/lovin-loggin-in/#comment-25093 Hi Eve, Kids today are actually discouraged from using their real names in their IM handle, as part of "cyber-safety," or whatever the hell they call that yearly talk that they get at school. I found this out after telling my younger daughter that she was lucky that she got her FirstnameLastname AIM name before anyone else, and that using some combination of our pet names and the word "soccer" (or whatever she was using) would make it more difficult for her friends to know who was IMing them. "They TOLD us at SCHOOL not to use our real names." Of course, judging from the encryption literature, as an Alice and a Bob she and I have to mostly worry more about the Eves of the world, but I doubt that this is covered in the cyber-safety talks. (I just noticed that we even have our own Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob) Bob Hi Eve,

Kids today are actually discouraged from using their real names in their IM handle, as part of “cyber-safety,” or whatever the hell they call that yearly talk that they get at school. I found this out after telling my younger daughter that she was lucky that she got her FirstnameLastname AIM name before anyone else, and that using some combination of our pet names and the word “soccer” (or whatever she was using) would make it more difficult for her friends to know who was IMing them. “They TOLD us at SCHOOL not to use our real names.”

Of course, judging from the encryption literature, as an Alice and a Bob she and I have to mostly worry more about the Eves of the world, but I doubt that this is covered in the cyber-safety talks. (I just noticed that we even have our own Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob)

Bob

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